Updated: 5:16 PM Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is returning to the public stage with her first speaking events since leaving the Obama administration.

Updated: 4:49 PM U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says he plans to block new gun control legislation when the Senate reconvenes in Washington next month.

Posted: 4:44 PM A Georgia grand jury has indicted a 17-year-old suspect in last week's fatal shooting of a baby in his stroller and in another unrelated shooting 10 days earlier in a robbery attempt.

Posted: 4:38 PM The $11 billion merger of American Airlines and US Airways won bankruptcy court approval Wednesday.

Posted: 4:26 PM The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a new drug from Biogen Idec to control multiple sclerosis in adults with hard-to-treat forms of the disease.

Posted: 5:13 PM Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes have offered to have him plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty.

Posted: 4:09 PM NEW YORK (AP) - The publisher of Khaled Hosseini, Harlan Coben and other popular authors has decided that it's comfortable with letting libraries offer e-book editions of brand new releases.

Posted: 4:04 PM The U.S. has taken its first real swipe against China following accusations that Beijing is behind a widespread and systemic hacking campaign targeting U.S. businesses.

Updated: 3:52 PM The president of Ohio State University says it's not possible to freeze tuition for out-of-state students at the moment but the university can help those students with scholarships.

Updated: 2:39 PM The Utility Workers Union of America says FirstEnergy has agreed to pay union members at the Harrison Power Station more than $1 million to settle unfair labor practice charges.

Posted: 2:20 PM A suburban Cleveland airport is challenging the loss of its control tower due to mandated federal budget cuts.

Updated: 2:20 PM The Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits for married people.

Posted: 4:01 PM Russell D. Moore, a theology professor from Biloxi, Miss., has been elected as the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

Posted: 3:49 PM President Barack Obama has named veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's first female director.

Posted: 3:31 PM A White House official says President Barack Obama will name Julia Pierson as the first female director of the Secret Servic

Updated: 3:30 PM The New Jersey man who won the $338 million Powerball lottery says he felt "pure joy" at winning the huge jackpot.

Posted: 2:45 PM U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is talking about the need for bipartisan compromise between lawmakers on the big issues facing the country.

Posted: 2:39 PM A man who was trapped in boulders on a Southern California mountain for up to five days is hospitalized in good condition.

Posted: 2:19 PM Nike is causing a social media storm with its latest online ad showing a picture of Tiger Woods overlaid with a quote from him, "Winning takes care of everything."

Updated: 7:37 AM Scientists say that what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later on.

Updated: 7:38 AM Amanda Knox called the decision "painful" but said she was confident in the truth.

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Updated: 7:42 AM The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium says four rare Amur tiger cuts have been born at the zoo, the second-such litter in a year.

Posted: 5:25 PM A tenor from New Orleans has won the prestigious Beverly Sills Award that signals a star in the works.

Posted: 5:16 PM Actor James Cromwell has pleaded no contest to disrupting a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting last month while protesting cat experiments at the school.